I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWe are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Myself I must remake.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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